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Capital police stop Chiapas teachers for 7 hours
By: Laura Poy Solano Yesterday, hundreds of dissident teachers from Sections 7 and 40 in Chiapas joined the La Ciudadela [1] occupation, after members of the Capital’s Secretariat of Public Security detained and encapsulated them for almost seven hours….
Read MoreCNTE teachers leave Chiapas for Mexico City
By: Angeles Mariscal Aboard 32 buses and dozens of private automobiles, a first contingent of teachers from the National Coordinator Educación Workers (CNTE) departed today headed to Mexico City, where they will add themselves to the protest actions that have…
Read MoreChiapas cultural march to support the teachers
By: Isaín Mandujano The music of the marimba, drums and whistles, baskets full of food, thousands of traditional folkloric dancers dressed as Parachicos, Chiapanecas, Tuxtla Zoques and other traditional clothing of the state characterized the cultural march in support of…
Read MoreChiapas People of Faith march in support of the teachers
IF THE REPRESSION CONTINUES, “ALL THE PEOPLE OF GOD WILL RISE UP,” THE BELIEVING PEOPLE WARN By Isaín Mandujano This Wednesday (June 8), thousands of indigenous Tsotils from different communities in the municipios of Simojovel, El Bosque, Huitiupán, Amatán and…
Read MoreFear of the teachers
By: Gloria Muñoz Ramírez The teachers are right and the State is afraid. Rejection of the labor reform, which is not educational, is in the streets. The mobilization of Friday, June 3 demonstrated the health of a movement that grows…
Read MoreChiapas parents will reject substitute teachers
PARENTS WILL REJECT SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS IF THE SEP FIRES CNTE TEACHERS By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas. (apro). – After nine days of the work stoppage, teachers of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) and parents’ committees from at…
Read MoreChiapas teachers march to show their strength
THE CNTE SHOWS ITS MUSCLE: holds one of the largest marches in its 37-year history By: Isaín Mandujano This Friday, tens of thousands of teachers miles of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE, its initials in Spanish) held one…
Read More66 Police injured in Oxchuc, Chiapas confrontation
CONFRONTATION WITH RESIDENTS IN OXCHUC; THERE ARE 66 POLICE INJURED By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas The assistant government secretary in the Los Altos zone of Chiapas, Edgar Rosales Acuña, reported that a confrontation between state…
Read MoreEZLN’s Words on 22nd Anniversary
The EZLN’s Words on the 22nd Anniversary of the beginning of the war against oblivion January 1, 2016 Good evening, Good morning compañeros, compañeras of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation bases of support, militia-men and militia-women compañeros/as, insurgent-women and…
Read MoreGive with heart & soul: Support the Zapatista communities!
“We, the Zapatistas, see and hear a catastrophe coming, and we mean that in every sense of the term, a perfect storm.” –The Storm, the Sentinel and the Lookout Syndrome, Subcomandante Galeano, April 1, 2015. Dear friends and supporters of…
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